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I Ain't Got What You Got Blues

from SQ (remixed​/​remastered) by Victor Montequin

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about

Mostly recorded at Full Sail University.

lyrics

You took my job
Did it please you?
You took my car
Did it please you?
You took my home
Did it please you?
You took my world
Now what am I to do?

You look at me
As if I've just woken
You turn your head
Like I haven't spoken
You say, just get up
But my bootstraps are broken
If you could step inside my shoes
Maybe you'd know what's really true

(Chorus)
And now I'm left
Sleeping under last week's news
That's why I got
The I ain't got what you got blues

I'm looking for food
But they can't feed me
Need someplace to sleep
But no one can keep me
I ask for some help
But they just tease me
I scrawl on a sign
Cause that's all you'll let me do

I see the children
But you ignore them
I had a family
I used to adore them
I fear the police
My friends abhore them
But they just do
What they are told to do

(Chorus)
I rub my feet
Worn from the holes in my shoes
That's why I got
The I ain't got what you got blues

You know I remember
When my friend was alive
We clung together
Just to survive
But he met his end
At some teenagers knives
So now I'm pleading
I don't want that to be me too

Some people believe
all they hear in the news
That all I want to do
Is buy drugs and booze
But if you could see
What's left of my socks and shoes
Maybe you'd change your mind
cause I ain't got time for these blues

credits

from SQ (remixed​/​remastered), released June 28, 2014
Victor Montequin - Vocals, Piano
Stef Kesic - Guitar
Larry Vita - Bass
Lou Murray - Trumpet
Andre Rawlerson - Guido
John Amein - Drums

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Victor Montequin Lake Mary, Florida

I've been playing music for 35 years and writing poetry for about the same amount of time. As a songwriter I've only recently felt I was good enough to publish. Hope you like it!

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